The Jian'an period (196-220), which is best known through the fictionalized account in the <italic>Romance of the Three States</italic>, is also an important literary period. It is celebrated for its major writers such as ...

Assessing immune correlates of protection, the immune responses that reliably predict the vaccine efficacy on the clinical endpoint, has always been an important objective in vaccine efficacy trials. In this dissertation, ...

Historians have long recognized that Iosif of Volokolamsk and the monastery he founded in 1479 had a profound influence on the Russian church and state. "Josephites" are generally considered to have been predominantly a ...

This descriptive research project was undertaken to determine the best way to structure the future of journalism and mass communication education so that it remains a viable discipline within the academy.The Literature ...

The geometry of the subducting Juan de Fuca plate beneath the Olympic Peninsula of Western Washington is modeled using wide-angle P mP reflections off the slab Moho. Active-source reflection data collected from the 1998 ...

The judicial branch has long been viewed as the weakest branch of government. Yet remarkably, the domestic judiciary has emerged as a significant actor on the international stage. Around the world, domestic courts are ...

Few legal proceedings in the U.S. have more profound consequences for families than the termination of parental rights. Previously described as family law's "death penalty," termination leads to the complete severance of ...

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Latvia has struggled to appropriately integrate its sizable Russian-speaking minority population, which makes up more than a quarter of the total Latvian population. Indeed, the country ...

A large literature has emerged in the last 10 years using high-frequency (intraday) asset returns to estimate lower-frequency phenomena, several of which being conditional daily return variance and its components jump ...

Junk is a defining by-product of our current consumer society. It permeates the urban environment as an artifact and a site, linked to a global network of trade. But junk, like the other forms of waste it is often mistaken ...

Though market liberalization has certainly had a tremendous impact on Turkey, much of the country's recent success is due to the active role of the government in promoting economic growth. Whereas a multitude of divisions ...

For many fish and wildlife species, a mosaic of available habitats is required to complete their life cycle, and is considered necessary to ensure population stability and persistence. Particularly for young animals, ...

This dissertation surveys the status of the juvenile delinquent in U.S. cultural production through a cross disciplinary investigation of sociology, psychology, literature and film. The cultural archive of this dissertation ...

This dissertation surveys the status of the juvenile delinquent in U.S. cultural production through a cross disciplinary investigation of sociology, psychology, literature and film. The cultural archive of this dissertation ...

Kamba Time is a composition for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello. This piece is inspired by conceptions of time of an ethnic group form Kenya - Kamba people. The idea of an absolute, potential and absent time is ...

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common neoplasm among people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A compelling body of evidence suggests that KS is caused by a novel human herpesvirus, referred to as Kaposi's ...